WARREN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Warren mean? 

• WARREN (noun)
  The noun WARREN has 5 senses:

1. United States writer and poet (1905-1989)

2. United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974)

3. a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits

4. an overcrowded residential area

5. a colony of rabbits

  Familiarity information: WARREN used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARREN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer and poet (1905-1989)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Robert Penn Warren; Warren

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Earl Warren; Warren

Instance hypernyms:

chief justice (the judge who presides over a supreme court)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

rabbit warren; warren

Hypernyms ("warren" is a kind of...):

burrow; tunnel (a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An overcrowded residential area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

rabbit warren; warren

Hypernyms ("warren" is a kind of...):

community; residential area; residential district (a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A colony of rabbits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("warren" is a kind of...):

animal group (a group of animals)

Meronyms (members of "warren"):

coney; cony; rabbit (any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food)

 Context examples 

I have a great fancy to see this lodger of yours, Mrs. Warren.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The NIH Clinical Center is actually made up of two centers: the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center and the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center.

(NIH Clinical Center, NCI Thesaurus)

"Wiki-Wiki," published in Warren's Monthly, was an instantaneous success.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit warren which is upon the other side.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah, Mrs. Warren! what news do you bring us this morning?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Wiki-Wiki," his Hawaiian short story, was bought by Warren's Monthly for two hundred and fifty dollars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He has been there for ten days, and neither Mr. Warren, nor I, nor the girl has once set eyes upon him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Warren's Monthly advertised to its subscribers that it was always on the quest after new writers, and that, among others, it had introduced Martin Eden to the reading public.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I suppose there could not be two people in your rooms, Mrs. Warren?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, well, Mrs. Warren, let us hear about it, then.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)